Obama Policy Towards Iran a Failure
Tags: Middle East, nuclear weapons.
Just re-stating the obvious:
Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has directed enrichment of a portion of that country’s stockpile of uranium to 20 percent. Experts regard this as a significant step forward for Iran’s nuclear weapons program. The reaction of Defense Secretary Robert Gates seems significant:
At a news conference with French Defense Minister Herve Morin, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates praised President Barack Obama’s attempts to engage the Islamic Republic diplomatically and chided Tehran for not reciprocating.
“No U.S. president has reached out more sincerely, and frankly taken more political risk, in an effort to try to create an opening for engagement for Iran,” he said. “All these initiatives have been rejected.”
So Gates was, evidently, praising Obama for pursuing a policy that has been, by the Secretary’s own admission, a complete failure.
One has to feel sorry for Gates having to carry on with such levels of incompetence as we see in the Obama Administration. He’s doing the best he can and I’m grateful he’s there as at least it means we’ve got someone who will look after the troops. But one Gates cannot carry an entire Obama Administration – and while he’s loyal to his boss, it clear that our policy towards Iran has been a failure.
It is time to re-assess our goals and means of attaining them.
Are we really going to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons? If so, then engagement and UN sanctions have to be set aside in favor of much stronger action – blockade backed by a threat of aerial bombardment of power, oil and nuclear sites.
Are we going to live with an Iranian nuclear force? If so, then we’d better start working out theater ballistic missile defense systems with Iraq, the Gulf States and others who will be under the Iranian gun. And then we’d better be prepared for a decades-long stand off punctuated by various flare ups of violence – and, of course, the prospect that the lunatics in Tehran will actually launch a nuclear war.
The one thing we can’t do is continue on as we are – Obama’s policy, as all liberal policies for dealing with rogue regimes, has been an utter failure. A failure, by the way, which everyone with any sense at all predicted. There never was a question that Iran’s government would respond to anything other than a mortal threat to its existence. Everyone knew this and knows this – except, of course, for President Obama and his Administration.
Time to start learning fast, Mr. President.
Mark Noonan is co-author (with Matt Margolis) of Caucus of Corruption: The Truth About The New Democratic Majority. He also blogs at Nevada News and Views. Follow Mark on Twitter.
13 Responses to “Obama Policy Towards Iran a Failure”
Caucus of Corruption
markiran:
with all your terrestrial talk
it makes this wookie wonder
how come your blogs former namesake
never threw down on iran either?
i mean…..they had 8 yrs to learn fast didn’t they?
Bagni,
I take it, then, that you would have been in favor of invading Iran 8 years ago?
Bagni,
I get the distinct impression that taking down Iran was on the agenda, but after Democrats sided with the anti-war left, it was all Bush could do just to secure victory in Iraq. The “peace” movement, as usual, has just ensured more bloodshed and worse problems.
As usual, an RRL troll has to try to deflect from the thread. Deflect, distract, dismiss, anything but address the issue.
Iran 9 years ago is not the Iran of today, any more than the Iraq of 9 years ago would have been the Iraq of today. The RRL likes to take a snapshot of a point in time and then use it the basis for an argument.
It is a favorite tactic to pretend, for example, that if we had not invaded Iraq the nation, and its weaponry, and its nuclear capability, and its use of such, would have remained static and would be at exactly the same levels they were before the invasion.
Now it appears that an equally feeble argument is being made regarding Iran, though in reverse, which of course flies in the face of the rapid advancements of Iran’s nuclear program as well as its rapidly escalating position as an aggressor.
So much of the Left depends on static situations. If it was that way then, it would still be that way now. If it is a threat now it must have been a threat then. And of course the Left has its tactics of diversion and distraction to throw into the mix.
Transparent tactics indicative of an ever-more-impotent position.
bush shoulda invaded iran.
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bush shoulda invaded iran.
Hey Dummy (in my best fred sanford voice)
Bush didnt “invade” anybody.
The United States went to war with the blessing of the UN, and congress.
Bush did not have a mandate for Iran.
The United States went to war with the blessing of the UN…neocon
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http://www.awesomelibrary.org/Iraq-War.html
wait a sec CO.
u gotta go w the flo u see.
like in animal hse when bluto says “when the germans bombed pearl harbor…”
dont interupt bluto, err-I mean neo or fmr or something…
ps – foreigner!…
CO
see arguing with IDIOTS page 101 for your answer
Chef
HEY DUMMY !!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5p-qIq32m8
of course obummer is a failure…chicago politic’s are the most corrupt around…he wants to play them on the world stage…once upon a time he was confident that his lies would sway kings and monarchs and tyrants…but they didnt…once upon a time he could sweet talk hope n change to the masses…but no longer…now…we come to realize that all obummer has done…or can do…is fail..and that…is not an option we want to accept…but it is inevitable…
It appears that Iran’s nuclear program may be failing:
http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100212/frontpage/2120333&template=page2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rX7wtNOkuHo&NR=1